UGA blog finds new home
Morning all. As I’ve said a couple of times this week, we’re converting this blog over to a WordPress platform and it will be a permanent move the first of next week.
Those of you who are regulars probably know that I’m not what you’d call techno-wizard when it comes to these things. But from what I understand the technology offered in this new format should make the blogging and commenting experience better for all. Of course, I’ll be learning as we go along, too. But I’m hoping to provide more pictures and video and things like that which should bring the blog more to life.
Of course, this blog is nothing without all you guys so I want to heartily invite (read: beg) you to come over to the new site by CLICKING HERE ON THE NEW ADDRESS and save it in your browsers. As of Monday, Feb. 23rd, this will be the permanent home of the UGA blog you so love or, in the case of some of you, love to loathe. If you’d prefer to copy and paste or just memorize, the new address is: http://blogs.ajc.com/uga-sports-blog/.
See at the new place!
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Thursday, July 31, 2008
Offense where Dogs need most improvement
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Earlier this week we discussed here what should be Georgia’s priorities as it embarked on preseason football camp, which begins Monday by the way. We got a lot of responses and some really good comments. If there was consensus it was probably solidifying the lineup and rotation of the offensive line and establishing a dependable kicking game. Noticeably absent was much talk about the defense.
I’d say that means this group is made up of pretty astute observers of football. After the fact, I decided to peruse last season’s final statistics as far as where the Bulldogs stacked up nationally. The conclusion therein was Georgia was real good on defense and special teams and not so great on offense.
Just for the sake of discussion and to save you good folks of having to go to the NCAA website and hunt and pick these things out, I figured I’d just post the Bulldogs’ numbers by what I consider the most important statistical categories and then we’ll talk about how that might apply to improvements they need to make.
So here’s the data. Keep in mind there were 119 Division I teams last year:
OFFENSE
Rushing 37th (177.23 ypg)
Passing 83rd (198.4)
Total O 74th (375.62)
Scoring 34th (32.62 ppg)
Pass eff. 61 (123.46 rating)
DEFENSE
Rush D 16th (109.9 ypg)
Pass D 36th (213.31)
Total D 14th (323.23)
Scoring D 18th (20.2 ppg)
QB sacks 8th (3.23 pg)
SPECIAL TEAMS
Net punt 14th (41.42 ypp)
Punt return 26th (11.78 ypr)
Kickoff return 17th (23.78)
PR defense 7th (4.88)
OTHER
Penalties 85th (91 for 760 yards)
T.O Margin 18th (plus-.69)
So, like they say, put that in your pipe and smoke it and tell me what you think. I’ll be checking in regularly,
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